Honkai Impact: Travel Notes of the Tree and the Sea

"Ellie, did they say they would come over tonight?"

In the large castle of Einzbern, Kiritsugu was confirming something with Irisviel, and there was still a lingering sadness on his face.

And when he learned that several Servants came to his house for a gathering tonight, Kiritsugu felt mixed emotions. After all, if something unexpected happened, the Holy Grail War might end early.

But just when Kiritsugu was still struggling, a bolt of thunder that penetrated the sky broke the silence in the castle, followed by Rider's familiar voice.

"Hey! Saber! It's here!"

"Rider, can't you be a little more polite when entering someone else's house?"

Saber looked at Rider who broke through the door on the stairs and didn't know what to say. Now Saber is not wearing the black suit she wore when going out, but the swordsman armor she wore as a servant.

"Don't worry about those things for now. You guys live in a really remote place. I flew in the air for a while before I determined the location."

Rider said as he took out a large wooden barrel from his cart. From the smell coming from the barrel, Saber should be able to determine that it contained some kind of wine.

"Hahaha, look, I brought wine specially. Let's go to tonight's party first."

With that said, regardless of Saber's answer, she carried the barrel and held her master with one hand and walked towards the top of the building. Saber shook her head helplessly, and after sending a message to her master, she followed Rider to the small courtyard on the roof of the building.

"Come on, come on, this is a rare wine for me."

As soon as he arrived in the courtyard, Rider sat cross-legged on the ground, smashed the lid of the wine barrel with his palm, took out a cup and poured wine directly into the barrel.

"Rider, you guys are really fast."

A crack filled with stars suddenly appeared in the courtyard, and then Tian Na pulled Alicia's figure and slowly walked out of the crack.

Alicia saw Saber and Rider who were already sitting on the ground about to start drinking, and she greeted them sweetly.

"Hey, come on, little brother, come and have a taste too."

Rider scooped up a full glass of wine and handed it to Tian Na.

Tian'an steadily took the wine glass handed over by Rider, and then looked around. Seeing that Tian'an seemed to be looking at something, Saber and Rider also looked around.

"Caster...what are you looking at?"

Although Tian'an said several times that he was not Caster, Saber didn't know what to call him for a while.

"I'm not Caster. If you want to call me, well... just call me recorder."

"I was waiting for a certain guy, and when I mentioned there was a drink tonight, I told him."

"Ah, here we come."

"Hey, evil dragon. Are you gathering here? This is too shabby."

With an extremely arrogant tone, a man in shining gold appeared in front of everyone.

"Archer!?"

"What? I am not worthy of attending this cocktail party?"

Gilgamesh glanced at Saber disdainfully, his face revealing his displeasure.

"Hey, you're here, of course we have to have a drink together."

Rider didn't care, and handed Archer a glass of wine. However, Gilgamesh just glanced at the wine in Rider's hand and stopped looking at him. Instead, he moved his gaze to Tian Na.

Looking at Gilgamesh's eyes, Tian'an couldn't laugh or cry. He naturally understood what this meant.

"You are always thinking about my bottles of dragon blood brew."

Although he was complaining, Tian Tian still took a bottle of blood-red stuff from the space and threw it to Gilgamesh, and then threw another bottle to Saber and Rider.

Gilgamesh was not polite. He took the dragon's blood brew, took out a golden wine cup from his treasure house, and poured himself a full cup.

"If I want to drink, I naturally want to drink the best wine. Although I also have some good treasures, since you are an evil dragon here, I am too lazy to take them."

After Gilgamesh took a sip, he glanced at Saber and Rider, who were still looking at the bottles in their hands, and groaned.

"This is really good wine from before the age of gods. If you don't know how to taste it, it's better not to waste it."

Hearing what Archer said, Rider no longer hesitated, opened the wine bottle, and drank half of the bottle for himself without hesitation.

When the wine entered his throat, an indescribable hot temperature surged up from his throat, causing Rider's face to turn red. After a while, it calmed down.

"This is really good wine!!" Rider looked at the little dragon blood brew left in his hand.

"Hey, little brother, is there anything else?"

However, it was Gilgamesh standing aside who answered on Tian's behalf.

"Hmph, the blood of a fantasy dragon is enough to brew half a bottle. It's really disappointing that such top-notch wine is wasted by you."

Tian'an did not comment on Gilgamesh's words. After all, according to the situation in this world, to brew a bottle of dragon blood brew, it does require the blood of two fantasy dragon species. However, for a bottle of dragon blood brew in Dragon Island, Just one drop of blood is enough.

After that, several people drank one glass at a time, and Gilgamesh also took out the wine he had collected for everyone to taste.

Weber, who had been drinking juice on the side, finally remembered the real purpose of coming to the reception.

"Then...that...recorder?" Weber said timidly.

"what happened?"

"If you are really not a Cater, then why are you a recorder? And why are you participating in this Holy Grail War?"

Hearing Weber's question, Tian Na turned his attention to Saber.

"Saber, go and call your master and the others."

After hearing this, Saber also got up and walked into the castle to call Kiritsugu and Irisviel over. While waiting, Tian'an also glanced at a certain corner of the castle, where he felt the breath of a servant. If nothing else, it should be Assassin who pretended to die at the beginning.

Soon, Saber called Emiya Kiritsugu and Irisviel over. Because Tenna's behavior at the port last time was too outrageous, Kiritsugu didn't know what to say for a while. Instead, Irisviel, who seemed to be afraid of strangers, spoke first.

"Sir, you called us here to tell us something?"

Seeing that everyone was almost here, Tian'an also drank the wine in his hand in one gulp, and then slowly spoke.

"First of all, let me tell you the reason why I participated in this Holy Grail War."

"My Master and I just received a commission from two little guys to recover this contaminated Holy Grail."

"Tainted Holy Grail!??"

Hearing Tenana's words, everyone present looked surprised. Even Kotomine Kirei, who was observing everyone through Assassin's field of vision, was speechless for a moment.

"How can it be!"

"How could the Holy Grail be contaminated!?"

In response to Irisviel's doubts, Tian'an continued her words in a leisurely manner.